Convert .resx file to .resources programmatically

Question

Hello All
Is there any other way apart from using the resgen  tool to generate .resource file from a .resx file
Are there any readymade classes (may be ResourceWriter, ResXResourceReader) available in .NET just for this purpose ??


Regards
Srivatsa

Answer 1

Hi,

look at this:

http://edndoc.esri.com/arcobjects/9.0/ArcGISDevHelp/DevelopmentEnvs/DotNet/WorkingWithResources.htm#Compiling_resx_file

Answer 2

Hello Mykhaylo ...
Thanks for ur reply and your time ... i know all these methods but i already have some .resx files with me ...
But I want to write a tool for myself wherein it picks up each .resx file and writes it into a .resource file.

Regards
Srivatsa

Answer 3

I don't know how to do it from a resx file, but from an assembly it is using reflection like this :

 

Assembly assembly = Assembly.ReflectionOnlyLoadFrom(@"c:\windows\microsoft.NET\Framework\V2.0.50727\System.design.dll");

 

string[] names = assembly.GetManifestResourceNames();

foreach (string name in names)

{

Stream s = assembly.GetManifestResourceStream(name);

FileStream fs = new FileStream(name, FileMode.Create);

BinaryWriter writer = new BinaryWriter(fs);

byte[] buffer = new byte[s.Length];

s.Read(buffer, 0, (int)s.Length);

fs.Write(buffer, 0, (int)s.Length);

fs.Close();

s.Close();

}

 

 

Answer 4

Thanks Philip .. i've now got a fair idea to make it work ...
Your post indeed helped me in every way

Thanks
Srivatsa

Answer 5

 

I happened to stumble on this a couple of weeks ago. It's a pretty simple tool to unify a set of resource files through a web interface. The source code is downloadable and you can pop it into your visual studio solution as a separate website.  FYI it uses AJAX, so you may need to download the AJAX extensions.

http://blog.lavablast.com/post/2008/02/RESX-file-Web-Editor.aspx

 

Dave

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